Iris Hever’s work, "Fearful Fatherland", is an installation based on objects with double meanings and texts based on errors in idiomatic phrases, typography, sound and video. The installation is built in two spaces, the "Upper City"– a space resembling a town square, and the "Lower City" in the Pit (a charged space in itself), resembling an open grave, filled with "Yahrzeit Candles". The descent to the Pit/grave suggests an observation in two worlds that are connected to one another through a "Big Brother" screen. The compressed city exposes the observer to a visual and verbal load, to a flooding of the senses with materials and shapes that stimulates disquiet, and feelings that range alternately from admiration to scorn, from sanctification to defilement, from worship to revulsion. The presented items, that mock the consuming culture and national-economical-religious myths, respond to social-political interests, hooked together in a paradoxical trap, leading to a dead end.

Curator: Itzhak Gaver